Great new mil-site

Just found this from Business Insider.

Haivng military and defense Web sites for a news group is apparently all the rage now. AOL has their Defense site, so does every newspaper worth their salt (see, the Journal Star is on the bleeding edge). So I just found this, Business Insider has a very cool milblog which has a great mix of personal touches and defense news. For instance, today, I found a link to a story about Fifth Generation Fighters like the F-35 and the Russion T-50 and also this map which will help you if there is a zombie outbreak.

Also, the guy who is behind the mil-blog "This Ain't Hell", Jonn Lilyea, is contributing to the site, which, to me, adds all kinds of flavor that only a grunt would know. He'll be contributing to the Smoke Pit, a term of endearment that everyone who deployed to the 'Stan or Iraq will get. To show you some of the fun or interesting stuff, here's a link to a series of photos taken during a firefight in Afghanistan which shows the M249 SAW in all its glory. Best of all, there are even IR pictures to show you the overheated barrel.

Our blogging software doesn't allow me to link to pictures or to post videos other than what is in our system. I'll try ti find a better way to post in the future but for now, we are stuck with this.

Author: Andy Kravetz

Andy Kravetz has spent most of the past 16 years covering the area's legal system as well as the military. in that time, he's crawled in the mud, flown in transport planes, and written about a man prosecuted for terrorism. This blog will reflect all those interests and then some.
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